Marcel Theroux
Award-winning novelist and broadcaster Marcel Theroux is the author of three successful novels: The Stranger in The Earth, The Paperchase – for which he won the Somerset Maugham award in 2002 – and A Blow to The Heart. His newly released narrative Far North confirms his prolific talent, as Brandon Robshaw (the Independent) says: “Theroux is a master storyteller, and the narrative is as full of surprises as it is of murders.”
Born in Kampala, Uganda, Marcel is the son of American travel writer and journalist Paul Theroux and the older brother of journalist and television presenter Louis Theroux. He grew up in Wandsworth, London and proceeded to study English at Cambridge before winning a scholarship to Yale, where he pursued an MA in International Relations. Since graduating he has worked for television news in New York and Boston aswell as a variety of TV companies both in the Britain and the US.
Theroux has presented an array of documentaries for Channel 4, More4 and BBC4 including The End of the World as We Know It, The Great Russian Art Boom on Channel 4, and More4’s popular Death of a Nation; a series exploring the post-Soviet problems in Russia. As contributing editor to Travel and Leisure magazine, his work was selected to appear in Best American Travel Writing 2000, published by Houghton Miffline.
Marcel’s Literary Pub Quiz is a popular favourite at Port Eliot, and he returns with yet more fun – and questions - in 2009, along with readings from Far North.
“Theroux’s strength is his ability to impress us by stealth, on points rather than with knock-out blows.”
The Times
“Exquisitely calculated… very satisfying.”
New York Times, in praise of The Paperchase
Links:
- Marcel Theroux tells the story behind his new novel
- Review of Marcel Theroux’s Far North in the Independent
Video:
Marcel Theroux presents Death of a Nation (1/6):
